Ernie Wise Quotes
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I love recording music.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
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We need to restart political processes to end wars.
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I actually wanted to be a tennis player.
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If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
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I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.
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Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
